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BBC2 wins three prizes for spy drama
BBC2 drama Cambridge Spies has won three awards at France's prestigious television festival Fipa, which attracts entries from all over the world. The programme took the silver award for best series, best actor in a series, and best music. It was made by the BBC ...
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Attheraces serves notice on TV deal
Attheraces has served notice on its TV deal with the Racecourse Association (RCA). The 10-year,£30m media-rights agreement with 49 UK racecourses will now terminate on 29 March. The Office of Fair Trading is also expected to rule against the existing deal on the basis that it is uncompetitive. Attheraces will ...
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Brook Lapping wins awards for Maggie
Brook Lapping producers Anne and Brian Lapping have picked up two awards at the New York Festivals. Anne Lapping won gold in the biography and profile category with four-part series Maggie - the First Lady , shown on ITV while Brian Lapping was awarded gold ...
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Channel 4 goes for longer ski run
Channel 4 is to double the length of its Sunday morning edition of Skiing on 4. The show will now run for one hour from 08.00 each Sunday until the end of the season. The move has been motivated by a recent string of ...
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Henderson chosen for chart show
Somethin' Else has appointed Sarah Henderson as executive producer for commercial radio chart show Hit40UK. Henderson, most recently a former head of music at GWR, is head of music and artist relations at Emap.
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Double launch for merged ITV
The launch of ITV plc on Monday (2 February) brought a major fillip to the network's financial position and a strong boost to the ratings of its relaunched flagship news programme.
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RDF opens 'regional' office in Guildford
RDF Media is to tap into Channel 4's 30% regional quota by setting up an office in Guildford, Surrey.
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UKTV to ditch UK Horizons
UKTV is poised to scrap factual channel UK Horizons and split its programmes across two new stations.
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Somerville to head up BBC's interactive TV
The BBC has promoted Emma Somerville to head its interactive TV programming department as it prepares to launch enhanced services this year for Wimbledon, the Olympics and Restoration II.
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Maverick TV rejigs
Maverick Television creative director Richard McKerrow has taken on a dual role as managing director following a restructure of the indie. In the re-organisation Jonnie Turpie becomes executive chairman and strategic director Alexandra Fraser becomes executive director. Colette Foster joins the company as an executive producer.
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Comedy Unit hirings
Indie The Comedy Unit has made two appointments. Former presenter and writer Gavin Smith will fill the newly created role of development producer and researcher with a brief to boost it output for young people. Amritraj Thakur joins as business development and marketing manager.
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Capital figures up
Capital Radio's revenues slowed in the run-up to Christmas but it still reported a rise in figures. For the last three months of 2003, the company reported a 5% rise in revenues compared with last year. Capital also said it had achieved 'particularly strong' revenue growth at alternative music station ...
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Heart on good form
Heart FM's owner Chrysalis has reported a bullish start to the year with a 19% rise in revenues over the past five months. Chrysalis chairman Chris Wright said at the company's AGM this week that the company was 'well placed to maximise its potential within the newly deregulated media environment'. ...
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The BBC after Hutton
The shock has begun to subside slightly after the high drama of last week - but the questions about the leadership and direction of the BBC post-Hutton and post-Dyke go on. Most industry figures who we talked to felt - perhaps for different reasons - that former BBC chairman Gavyn ...
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Staff plan more action
BBC staff were preparing to show their support for deposed director general Greg Dyke again on Thursday (5 February) exactly a week after thousands spontaneously took to the streets to protest at his sudden departure.
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What Greg Dyke meant to us
'Greg's departure is a tragic loss for all of us who care about public service broadcasting. I'll never forget the night in a pub in Whitehall where I outlined our plans for the Jubilee concerts at Buckingham Palace. Greg asked how much they would cost, when I told him he ...
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NewsDyke's lasting legacy
Greg Dyke rescued the corporation from Birtism and gave the BBC's staff back their creative confidence
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Offering odds on new DG
The competition has already begun to replace Dyke and Davies, Paul Revoir looks at odds for the top candidates
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Granada Bristol wins ITV1 orders
Granada Bristol has won its biggest ever raft of commissions from ITV1 with three series including a reality show in which members of the public are press-ganged into crewing an ocean-going vessel, writes Paul Revoir.
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Robinson takes 'worst jobs in history' for C4
Time Team presenter Tony Robinson is to trample woollen cloth barefoot in a bucket of stale urine as part of a new social history series for Channel 4, writes Jon Rogers.